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You know that feeling when you find yourself in a place that you've seen on TV and read about in books and magazines, and everything in those portrayals turns out to be true? On a recent misty Friday night, as I milled about a party in the...

Art has a knack for finding its way into forgotten spaces. From tiny cupboards to rummage sale piles to that empty space behind a door, the most unassuming locales can play home to iconic objets d'art.
So, we're not all that surprised to hear the...

The photographs in the exhibition were altered using a variety of techniques, including multiple exposure (taking two or more pictures on a single negative), combination printing (producing a single print from elements of two or...

By Kelly Chan ( www.artinfo.com ).
In his 2001 book "Contested Symmetries and Other Predicaments in Architecture," Cambridge-based architect Preston Scott Cohen takes on a gusty, manifesto-like tone, lamenting the decline of architecture into "a discipline of disinterestedness, arbitrariness, and easily digestible decoration." While many of his contemporaries were turning to the computer to redefine their discipline, reveling in the new ease with which technically challenging forms could be realized, Cohen confronted the unsettling notion that architecture, as an intellectual and artistic pursuit, had once again been outpaced by technology.